US President Joe Biden on Sunday after Democrats win the Senate in the midterm elections (mid term) Not just a reason to celebrate. His party is expected to lose control of the House of Representatives. Not a single Senate seat has yet been allocated: the one in Georgia. Americans have to go to the polls […]
Democrats retain a majority in the US Senate, and the results of the House of Representatives are not yet known abroad
13 nov 2022 om 04:21Update: 2 uur geleden Volg dit underwerp Receive notification of new developments The president’s party often loses It is almost a rule of law in American politics that the party of an incumbent president suffers (often heavy) losses in the midterm elections. But Democrats are getting things right this time, which […]
After it rains from the clouds, they try it in Abu Dhabi
NOS NOS . News•Yesterday at 19:00 Attempts to make it rain are as old as humanity. With rain dances, by asking for help from the gods or by means of offerings. In Abu Dhabi, they have another way to force rain: rain clouds or modify the cloud. Chemicals or salt particles are released into a […]
You can’t stop us
AP NOS . News•Today 17:06 Helen Aker Climate & Energy Editor Helen Aker Climate & Energy Editor Several thousand people from different countries and continents demonstrated at the Climate Summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. They chanted slogans such as “we are not defeated”, “you can’t stop us” and “no climate justice without human rights”. […]
We already know this about Thomas (29) and Jason (23), the two young officers who were stabbed in their police car | Abroad
The two officers were Jason B. Thomas, who was driving, opened his window and almost immediately slammed Mahi with a knife into the officer’s neck. Then he stabbed Jason in the arm. Thomas eventually died of his injuries. “We’ve lost one of us,” emotional police chief Olivier Sloussi said during a press conference. We already […]
Ukraine regains Kherson | The Wagner Group trains on the border | The war in Ukraine
11 nov 2022 om 21:23Update: 2 uur geleden Zi ookOekraïne claimt belangrijke overwinning in strategische stad Kherson 1:50Afspelen knop Third retreat since September The withdrawal is the third since the invasion began on February 24. Russia abandoned its offensive in the Kyiv region in the spring. In September, after military setbacks in the northeast, it […]
Launching a global alert system against methane emissions
Reuters NOS . News•Today 17:08 Helen Aker Climate & Energy Editor Helen Aker Climate & Energy Editor At the United Nations climate conference in Egypt, a global alert system was launched to combat methane emissions. Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and is a major concern. Last year there were […]
An American returns the looted antiquities he inherited from his German-Dutch grandmother | Abroad
An American man returned 19 artifacts to four countries from which they came. John Gomperts had inherited the old pieces – worth about €90,000 – from his German-Dutch grandmother, but they may have been stolen. John Gomperts, who lives in Washington, realized after reading an article in a British newspaper Watchman That ancient artifacts – […]
Dutch-Romanian ‘1.6 million wine thieves’ found guilty of stealing 40-year-old bottle of whiskey | Abroad
The main Dutch-Romanian suspect was convicted of a staggering €1.6 million worth of wine theft in Spain in 2021 in Madrid for a slightly smaller but similar theft: a bottle of Scotch whiskey worth more than €5,000. On Wednesday, the court sentenced 48-year-old Konstantin Gabriel Dumitru to one year in prison, plus 3,720 euros in […]
Egyptianische activist Abdel-Fattah opgenomen na honger- en dorsttaking
EPA NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 12:37•Aangepast vandaag, 15:42 De in Egypte opgesloten activist Alaa Abdel Fattah is opgenomen in het ziekenhuis, nadat hij begin deze week naast zijn hongerstaking ook was gestopt met drinken. Zijn familie zegt dat er zorgen zijn over zijn gezondheid en dat de gevangenis daarom besloot om in te grijpen. Zijn advocaat zegt […]